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Genus: Simziella Cala-Riquelme & Alequín, 2025 | Family: Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Simziella palmgreni (Marusik & Fritzén, 2011)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044369

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Described:

Distribution: Finland, Russia (Europe to north-eastern Siberia)

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS), Helsinki, Finland 3f 5juv -

Taxonomic References

Dictyna schmidti Lehtinen, 1967: 451, f. 292, 306, 321 (m, Df; misidentified per Marusik & Fritzén, 2011: 95)

Dictyna schmidti Palmgren, 1977a: 21, f. 4.7-9 (mf; misidentified per Marusik & Fritzén, 2011: 95)

Dictyna schmidti Danilov, 2000: 42, f. 15-16 (f; misidentified per Marusik & Fritzén, 2011: 95)

Dictyna palmgreni Marusik & Fritzén, 2011: 95, f. 1-2, 6-9, 12-13, 18-19, 22-23, 28-29, 30a-b, 32-33 (Dmf) Original description

Simziella palmgreni Montana et al., 2025: 90 (T from Dictyna)

References

Danilov, S. N. (2000). New data on the spiders of the family Dictynidae (Araneae) from Siberia. Ekológia (Bratislava) 19(Suppl. 3): 37-44. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Fritzén, N. R. (2011). On a new Dictyna species (Araneae, Dictynidae) from the northern Palaearctic confused with the east Siberian D. schmidti Kulczyński, 1926. ZooKeys 138: 93-108. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.138.1849 -- Show included taxa

Montana, K. O., Cala-Riquelme, F., Crews, S. C., Gorneau, J. A., Al-Jamal, A. M., Alequín, L. D., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F. & Esposito, L. A. (2025). Tailor's drawer no more: a reappraisal of the spider family Dictynidae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871 sensu lato. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2, zlaf007): 1-97. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf007 [[2nd pdf contains the Suppl. Figs 1-5]] -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1977a). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. VIII. Argyronetidae, Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Dictynidae, Amaurobiidae, Titanoecidae, Segestriidae, Pholcidae und Sicariidae. Fauna Fennica 30: 1-50. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Montana et al., 2025
2025-07-07	Species transferred to new genus	Montana et al., 2025		Species transferred from Dictyna to Simziella